IP Library Granted Patent US 7,191,378
Granted Patent B2
US 7,191,378 · App. 10/613,823 · Granted Mar 13, 2007

Method and system for providing low density parity check (LDPC) encoding

Assignee: The DirecTV Group, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,191,378
App. No.
10/613,823
Granted
Mar 13, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

An approach is provided for a method of encoding structure Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. Memory storing information representing a structured parity check matrix of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is accessed during the encoding process. The information is organized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one values within a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix. The rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation. An LDPC coded signal is output based on the stored information representing the parity check matrix.

Claims (1156)

1. A method of encoding, comprising:

accessing memory storing information representing a structured parity check matrix of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, the information being organized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one values within a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix, the rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each at the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation; and

outputting an LDPC coded signal based on the stored information representing the parity check matrix,

wherein the first information bit in the j th group of M information bits is accumulated in the j th parity bit accumulator if the i th entry in (jM) th column of the parity check matrix is 1, where i=0,1,2,3, . . .k ldpc /M−1,

wherein the remaining (M−1) information bits m=jM+1, jM+2, jM+3, . . . (j+1)M−1 of the j th group is accumulated in the parity bit accumulators according to {x+m mod M×q}mod(n ldpc −k ldpc ), wherein x denotes the address of the parity bit accumulator corresponding to the first bit, jM, in the group, and q is a code rate dependent constant,

wherein after all of the information bits are exhausted, operations, starting with i=l are performed according to p l =p i ⊕p i−1 , i=1,2, . . . ,n ldpc −k ldpc −1, wherein final content of p i , i=0,1, . . . ,n ldpc −k ldpc −1 is equal to the parity bit p i .

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined operation specifies one of the steps of:

performing a cyclic shift on the first column of each of the group; and

adding a constant to the first column of each of the group, the constant being dependent on code rate of the LDPC code.

3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the parity bits are determined sequentially, the method further comprising:

determining an i th parity bit by adding the (j−1) th parity bit and the j th information bit if the j th entry in the i th row of the parity check matrix is 1.

4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein M=360.

5. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the code dependent constant q is 60, 30, 90, 45, 36, 72, 20, and 18 for code rates ⅔, ⅚, ½, ¾, ⅘, ⅗, 8/9, and 9/10, respectively.

6. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

modulating the LDPC coded signal according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK (Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.

7. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

encoding an input signal according to Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) codes, wherein the output LDPC coded signal corresponding to the input signal represents a code having an outer BCH code and an inner LDPC code.

8. A method according to claim 7 , wherein the number of redundant BCH bits is n BCH −k BCH =16*t, wherein t represents error correcting capability of the BCH code.

9. A method according to claim 7 , wherein the error correction capability of the BCH code is 12 bits when used in concatenation with rate ½, ¾, ⅘ and ⅗ LDPC codes, is 10 bits when used in concatenation with rate ⅔ and ⅚ LDPC codes, and is 8 bits when used in concatenation with rate 8/9 and 9/10 LDPC codes.

10. A method of encoding, comprising:

accessing memory storing information representing a structured parity check matrix of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, the information being organized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one values within a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix, the rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation; and

outputting an LDPC coded signal based on the stored information representing the parity check matrix,

wherein the row indices of 1's in the column index j*360

(

j

=

0

,

1

,

2

,

3

,

,

k

ldpc

360

-

1

)

of the parity check matrix are given at the j th row according to one of Tables 1–8:

TABLE 1

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3)

0 10491 16043 506 12826 8065 8226 2767 240 18673 9279 10579 20928

1 17819 8313 6433 6224 5120 5824 12812 17187 9940 13447 13825 18483

2 17957 6024 8681 18628 12794 5915 14576 10970 12064 20437 4455 7151

3 19777 6183 9972 14536 8182 17749 11341 5556 4379 17434 15477 18532

4 4651 19689 1608 659 16707 14335 6143 3058 14618 17894 20684 5306

5 9778 2552 12096 12369 15198 16890 4851 3109 1700 18725 1997 15882

6 486 6111 13743 11537 5591 7433 15227 14145 1483 3887 17431 12430

7 20647 14311 11734 4180 8110 5525 12141 15761 18661 18441 10569 8192

8 3791 14759 15264 19918 10132 9062 10010 12786 10675 9682 19246 5454

9 19525 9485 7777 19999 8378 9209 3163 20232 6690 16518 716 7353

10 4588 6709 20202 10905 915 4317 11073 13576 16433 368 3508 21171

11 14072 4033 19959 12608 631 19494 14160 8249 10223 21504 12395 4322

12 13800 14161

13 2948 9647

14 14693 16027

15 20506 11082

16 1143 9020

17 13501 4014

18 1548 2190

19 12216 21556

20 2095 19897

21 4189 7958

22 15940 10048

23 515 12614

24 8501 8450

25 17595 16784

26 5913 8495

27 16394 10423

28 7409 6981

29 6678 15939

30 20344 12987

31 2510 14588

32 17918 6655

33 6703 19451

34 496 4217

35 7290 5766

36 10521 8925

37 20379 11905

38 4090 5838

39 19082 17040

40 20233 12352

41 19365 19546

42 6249 19030

43 11037 19193

44 19760 11772

45 19644 7428

46 16076 3521

47 11779 21062

48 13062 9682

49 8934 5217

50 11087 3319

51 18892 4356

52 7894 3898

53 5963 4360

54 7346 11726

55 5182 5609

56 2412 17295

57 9845 20494

58 6687 1864

59 20564 5216

0 18226 17207

1 9380 8266

2 7073 3065

3 18252 13437

4 9161 15642

5 10714 10153

6 11585 9078

7 5359 9418

8 9024 9515

9 1206 16354

10 14994 1102

11 9375 20796

12 15964 6027

13 14789 6452

14 8002 18591

15 14742 14089

16 253 3045

17 1274 19286

18 14777 2044

19 13920 9900

20 452 7374

21 18206 9921

22 6131 5414

23 10077 9726

24 12045 5479

25 4322 7990

26 15616 5550

27 15561 10661

28 20718 7387

29 2518 18804

30 8984 2600

31 6516 17909

32 11148 98

33 20559 3704

34 7510 1569

35 16000 11692

36 9147 10303

37 16650 191

38 15577 18685

39 17167 20917

40 4256 3391

41 20092 17219

42 9218 5056

43 18429 8472

44 12093 20753

45 16345 12748

46 16023 11095

47 5048 17595

48 18995 4817

49 16483 3536

50 1439 16148

51 3661 3039

52 19010 18121

53 8968 11793

54 13427 18003

55 5303 3083

56 531 16668

57 4771 6722

58 5695 7960

59 3589 14630

TABLE 2

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 5/6)

0 4362 416 8909 4156 3216 3112 2560 2912 6405 8593 4969 6723

1 2479 1786 8978 3011 4339 9313 6397 2957 7288 5484 6031 10217

2 10175 9009 9889 3091 4985 7267 4092 8874 5671 2777 2189 8716

3 9052 4795 3924 3370 10058 1128 9996 10165 9360 4297 434 5138

4 2379 7834 4835 2327 9843 804 329 8353 7167 3070 1528 7311

5 3435 7871 348 3693 1876 6585 10340 7144 5870 2084 4052 2780

6 3917 3111 3476 1304 10331 5939 5199 1611 1991 699 8316 9960

7 6883 3237 1717 10752 7891 9764 4745 3888 10009 4176 4614 1567

8 10587 2195 1689 2968 5420 2580 2883 6496 111 6023 1024 4449

9 3786 8593 2074 3321 5057 1450 3840 5444 6572 3094 9892 1512

10 8548 1848 10372 4585 7313 6536 6379 1766 9462 2456 5606 9975

11 8204 10593 7935 3636 3882 394 5968 8561 2395 7289 9267 9978

12 7795 74 1633 9542 6867 7352 6417 7568 10623 725 2531 9115

13 7151 2482 4260 5003 10105 7419 9203 6691 8798 2092 8263 3755

14 3600 570 4527 200 9718 6771 1995 8902 5446 768 1103 6520

15 6304 7621

16 6498 9209

17 7293 6786

18 5950 1708

19 8521 1793

20 6174 7854

21 9773 1190

22 9517 10268

23 2181 9349

24 1949 5560

25 1556 555

26 8600 3827

27 5072 1057

28 7928 3542

29 3226 3762

0 7045 2420

1 9645 2641

2 2774 2452

3 5331 2031

4 9400 7503

5 1850 2338

6 10456 9774

7 1692 9276

8 10037 4038

9 3964 338

10 2640 5087

11 858 3473

12 5582 5683

13 9523 916

14 4107 1559

15 4506 3491

16 8191 4182

17 10192 6157

18 5668 3305

19 3449 1540

20 4766 2697

21 4069 6675

22 1117 1016

23 5619 3085

24 8483 8400

25 8255 394

26 6338 5042

27 6174 5119

28 7203 1989

29 1781 5174

0 1464 3559

1 3376 4214

2 7238 67

3 10595 8831

4 1221 6513

5 5300 4652

6 1429 9749

7 7878 5131

8 4435 10284

9 6331 5507

10 6662 4941

11 9614 10238

12 8400 8025

13 9156 5630

14 7067 8878

15 9027 3415

16 1690 3866

17 2854 8469

18 6206 630

19 363 5453

20 4125 7008

21 1612 6702

22 9069 9226

23 5767 4060

24 3743 9237

25 7018 5572

26 8892 4536

27 853 6064

28 8069 5893

29 2051 2885

0 10691 3153

1 3602 4055

2 328 1717

3 2219 9299

4 1939 7898

5 617 206

6 8544 1374

7 10676 3240

8 6672 9489

9 3170 7457

10 7868 5731

11 6121 10732

12 4843 9132

13 580 9591

14 6267 9290

15 3009 2268

16 195 2419

17 8016 1557

18 1516 9195

19 8062 9064

20 2095 8968

21 753 7326

22 6291 3833

23 2614 7844

24 2303 646

25 2075 611

26 4687 362

27 8684 9940

28 4830 2065

29 7038 1363

0 1769 7837

1 3801 1689

2 10070 2359

3 3667 9918

4 1914 6920

5 4244 5669

6 10245 7821

7 7648 3944

8 3310 5488

9 6346 9666

10 7088 6122

11 1291 7827

12 10592 8945

13 3609 7120

14 9168 9112

15 6203 8052

16 3330 2895

17 4264 10563

18 10556 6496

19 8807 7645

20 1999 4530

21 9202 6818

22 3403 1734

23 2106 9023

24 6881 3883

25 3895 2171

26 4062 6424

27 3755 9536

28 4683 2131

29 7347 8027

TABLE 3

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/2)

54 9318 14392 27561 26909 10219 2534 8597

55 7263 4635 2530 28130 3033 23830 3651

56 24731 23583 26036 17299 5750 792 9169

57 5811 26154 18653 11551 15447 13685 16264

58 12610 11347 28768 2792 3174 29371 12997

59 16789 16018 21449 6165 21202 15850 3186

60 31016 21449 17618 6213 12166 8334 18212

61 22836 14213 11327 5896 718 11727 9308

62 2091 24941 29966 23634 9013 15587 5444

63 22207 3983 16904 28534 21415 27524 25912

64 25687 4501 22193 14665 14798 16158 5491

65 4520 17094 23397 4264 22370 16941 21526

66 10490 6182 32370 9597 30841 25954 2762

67 22120 22865 29870 15147 13668 14955 19235

68 6689 18408 18346 9918 25746 5443 20645

69 29982 12529 13858 4746 30370 10023 24828

70 1262 28032 29888 13063 24033 21951 7863

71 6594 29642 31451 14831 9509 9335 31552

72 1358 6454 16633 20354 24598 624 5265

73 19529 295 18011 3080 13364 8032 15323

74 11981 1510 7960 21462 9129 11370 25741

75 9276 29656 4543 30699 20646 21921 28050

76 15975 25634 5520 31119 13715 21949 19605

77 18688 4608 31755 30165 13103 10706 29224

78 21514 23117 12245 26035 31656 25631 30699

79 9674 24966 31285 29908 17042 24588 31857

80 21856 27777 29919 27000 14897 11409 7122

81 29773 23310 263 4877 28622 20545 22092

82 15605 5651 21864 3967 14419 22757 15896

83 30145 1759 10139 29223 26086 10556 5098

84 18815 16575 2936 24457 26738 6030 505

85 30326 22298 27562 20131 26390 6247 24791

86 928 29246 21246 12400 15311 32309 18608

87 20314 6025 26689 16302 2296 3244 19613

88 6237 11943 22851 15642 23857 15112 20947

89 26403 25168 19038 18384 8882 12719 7093

0 14567 24965

1 3908 100

2 10279 240

3 24102 764

4 12383 4173

5 13861 15918

6 21327 1046

7 5288 14579

8 28158 8069

9 16583 11098

10 16681 28363

11 13980 24725

12 32169 17989

13 10907 2767

14 21557 3818

15 26676 12422

16 7676 8754

17 14905 20232

18 15719 24646

19 31942 8589

20 19978 27197

21 27060 15071

22 6071 26649

23 10393 11176

24 9597 13370

25 7081 17677

26 1433 19513

27 26925 9014

28 19202 8900

29 18152 30647

30 20803 1737

31 11804 25221

32 31683 17783

33 29694 9345

34 12280 26611

35 6526 26122

36 26165 11241

37 7666 26962

38 16290 8480

39 11774 10120

40 30051 30426

41 1335 15424

42 6865 17742

43 31779 12489

44 32120 21001

45 14508 6996

46 979 25024

47 4554 21896

48 7989 21777

49 4972 20661

50 6612 2730

51 12742 4418

52 29194 595

53 19267 20113

TABLE 4

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/4)

0 6385 7901 14611 13389 11200 3252 5243 2504 2722 821 7374

1 11359 2698 357 13824 12772 7244 6752 15310 852 2001 11417

2 7862 7977 6321 13612 12197 14449 15137 13860 1708 6399 13444

3 1560 11804 6975 13292 3646 3812 8772 7306 5795 14327 7866

4 7626 11407 14599 9689 1628 2113 10809 9283 1230 15241 4870

5 1610 5699 15876 9446 12515 1400 6303 5411 14181 13925 7358

6 4059 8836 3405 7853 7992 15336 5970 10368 10278 9675 4651

7 4441 3963 9153 2109 12683 7459 12030 12221 629 15212 406

8 6007 8411 5771 3497 543 14202 875 9186 6235 13908 3563

9 3232 6625 4795 546 9781 2071 7312 3399 7250 4932 12652

10 8820 10088 11090 7069 6585 13134 10158 7183 488 7455 9238

11 1903 10818 119 215 7558 11046 10615 11545 14784 7961 15619

12 3655 8736 4917 15874 5129 2134 15944 14768 7150 2692 1469

13 8316 3820 505 8923 6757 806 7957 4216 15589 13244 2622

14 14463 4852 15733 3041 11193 12860 13673 8152 6551 15108 8758

15 3149 11981

16 13416 6906

17 13098 13352

18 2009 14460

19 7207 4314

20 3312 3945

21 4418 6248

22 2669 13975

23 7571 9023

24 14172 2967

25 7271 7138

26 6135 13670

27 7490 14559

28 8657 2466

29 8599 12834

30 3470 3152

31 13917 4365

32 6024 13730

33 10973 14182

34 2464 13167

35 5281 15049

36 1103 1849

37 2058 1069

38 9654 6095

39 14311 7667

40 15617 8146

41 4588 11218

42 13660 6243

43 8578 7874

44 11741 2686

0 1022 1264

1 12604 9965

2 8217 2707

3 3156 11793

4 354 1514

5 6978 14058

6 7922 16079

7 15087 12138

8 5053 6470

9 12687 14932

10 15458 1763

11 8121 1721

12 12431 549

13 4129 7091

14 1426 8415

15 9783 7604

16 6295 11329

17 1409 12061

18 8065 9087

19 2918 8438

20 1293 14115

21 3922 13851

22 3851 4000

23 5865 1768

24 2655 14957

25 5565 6332

26 4303 12631

27 11653 12236

28 16025 7632

29 4655 14128

30 9584 13123

31 13987 9597

32 15409 12110

33 8754 15490

34 7416 15325

35 2909 15549

36 2995 8257

37 9406 4791

38 11111 4854

39 2812 8521

40 8476 14717

41 7820 15360

42 1179 7939

43 2357 8678

44 7703 6216

0 3477 7067

1 3931 13845

2 7675 12899

3 1754 8187

4 7785 1400

5 9213 5891

6 2494 7703

7 2576 7902

8 4821 15682

9 10426 11935

10 1810 904

11 11332 9264

12 11312 3570

13 14916 2650

14 7679 7842

15 6089 13084

16 3938 2751

17 8509 4648

18 12204 8917

19 5749 12443

20 12613 4431

21 1344 4014

22 8488 13850

23 1730 14896

24 14942 7126

25 14983 8863

26 6578 8564

27 4947 396

28 297 12805

29 13878 6692

30 11857 11186

31 14395 11493

32 16145 12251

33 13462 7428

34 14526 13119

35 2535 11243

36 6465 12690

37 6872 9334

38 15371 14023

39 8101 10187

40 11963 4848

41 15125 6119

42 8051 14465

43 11139 5167

44 2883 14521

TABLE 5

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 4/5)

0 149 11212 5575 6360 12559 8108 8505 408 10026 12828

1 5237 490 10677 4998 3869 3734 3092 3509 7703 10305

2 8742 5553 2820 7085 12116 10485 564 7795 2972 2157

3 2699 4304 8350 712 2841 3250 4731 10105 517 7516

4 12067 1351 11992 12191 11267 5161 537 6166 4246 2363

5 6828 7107 2127 3724 5743 11040 10756 4073 1011 3422

6 11259 1216 9526 1466 10816 940 3744 2815 11506 11573

7 4549 11507 1118 1274 11751 5207 7854 12803 4047 6484

8 8430 4115 9440 413 4455 2262 7915 12402 8579 7052

9 3885 9126 5665 4505 2343 253 4707 3742 4166 1556

10 1704 8936 6775 8639 8179 7954 8234 7850 8883 8713

11 11716 4344 9087 11264 2274 8832 9147 11930 6054 5455

12 7323 3970 10329 2170 8262 3854 2087 12899 9497 11700

13 4418 1467 2490 5841 817 11453 533 11217 11962 5251

14 1541 4525 7976 3457 9536 7725 3788 2982 6307 5997

15 11484 2739 4023 12107 6516 551 2572 6628 8150 9852

16 6070 1761 4627 6534 7913 3730 11866 1813 12306 8249

17 12441 5489 8748 7837 7660 2102 11341 2936 6712 11977

18 10155 4210

19 1010 10483

20 8900 10250

21 10243 12278

22 7070 4397

23 12271 3887

24 11980 6836

25 9514 4356

26 7137 10281

27 11881 2526

28 1969 11477

29 3044 10921

30 2236 8724

31 9104 6340

32 7342 8582

33 11675 10405

34 6467 12775

35 3186 12198

0 9621 11445

1 7486 5611

2 4319 4879

3 2196 344

4 7527 6650

5 10693 2440

6 6755 2706

7 5144 5998

8 11043 8033

9 4846 4435

10 4157 9228

11 12270 6562

12 11954 7592

13 7420 2592

14 8810 9636

15 689 5430

16 920 1304

17 1253 11934

18 9559 6016

19 312 7589

20 4439 4197

21 4002 9555

22 12232 7779

23 1494 8782

24 10749 3969

25 4368 3479

26 6316 5342

27 2455 3493

28 12157 7405

29 6598 11495

30 11805 4455

31 9625 2090

32 4731 2321

33 3578 2608

34 8504 1849

35 4027 1151

0 5647 4935

1 4219 1870

2 10968 8054

3 6970 5447

4 3217 5638

5 8972 669

6 5618 12472

7 1457 1280

8 8868 3883

9 8866 1224

10 8371 5972

11 266 4405

12 3706 3244

13 6039 5844

14 7200 3283

15 1502 11282

16 12318 2202

17 4523 965

18 9587 7011

19 2552 2051

20 12045 10306

21 11070 5104

22 6627 6906

23 9889 2121

24 829 9701

25 2201 1819

26 6689 12925

27 2139 8757

28 12004 5948

29 8704 3191

30 8171 10933

31 6297 7116

32 616 7146

33 5142 9761

34 10377 8138

35 7616 5811

0 7285 9863

1 7764 10867

2 12343 9019

3 4414 8331

4 3464 642

5 6960 2039

6 786 3021

7 710 2086

8 7423 5601

9 8120 4885

10 12385 11990

11 9739 10034

12 424 10162

13 1347 7597

14 1450 112

15 7965 8478

16 8945 7397

17 6590 8316

18 6838 9011

19 6174 9410

20 255 113

21 6197 5835

22 12902 3844

23 4377 3505

24 5478 8672

25 4453 2132

26 9724 1380

27 12131 11526

28 12323 9511

29 8231 1752

30 497 9022

31 9288 3080

32 2481 7515

33 2696 268

34 4023 12341

35 7108 5553

TABLE 6

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5)

22422 10282 11626 19997 11161 2922 3122 99 5625 17064 8270 179

25087 16218 17015 828 20041 25656 4186 11629 22599 17305 22515 6463

11049 22853 25706 14388 5500 19245 8732 2177 13555 11346 17265 3069

16581 22225 12563 19717 23577 11555 25496 6853 25403 5218 15925 21766

16529 14487 7643 10715 17442 11119 5679 14155 24213 21000 1116 15620

5340 8636 16693 1434 5635 6516 9482 20189 1066 15013 25361 14243

18506 22236 20912 8952 5421 15691 6126 21595 500 6904 13059 6802

8433 4694 5524 14216 3685 19721 25420 9937 23813 9047 25651 16826

21500 24814 6344 17382 7064 13929 4004 16552 12818 8720 5286 2206

22517 2429 19065 2921 21611 1873 7507 5661 23006 23128 20543 19777

1770 4636 20900 14931 9247 12340 11008 12966 4471 2731 16445 791

6635 14556 18865 22421 22124 12697 9803 25485 7744 18254 11313 9004

19982 23963 18912 7206 12500 4382 20067 6177 21007 1195 23547 24837

756 11158 14646 20534 3647 17728 11676 11843 12937 4402 8261 22944

9306 24009 10012 11081 3746 24325 8060 19826 842 8836 2898 5019

7575 7455 25244 4736 14400 22981 5543 8006 24203 13053 1120 5128

3482 9270 13059 15825 7453 23747 3656 24585 16542 17507 22462 14670

15627 15290 4198 22748 5842 13395 23918 16985 14929 3726 25350 24157

24896 16365 16423 13461 16615 8107 24741 3604 25904 8716 9604 20365

3729 17245 18448 9862 20831 25326 20517 24618 13282 5099 14183 8804

16455 17646 15376 18194 25528 1777 6066 21855 14372 12517 4488 17490

1400 8135 23375 20879 8476 4084 12936 25536 22309 16582 6402 24360

25119 23586 128 4761 10443 22536 8607 9752 25446 15053 1856 4040

377 21160 13474 5451 17170 5938 10256 11972 24210 17833 22047 16108

13075 9648 24546 13150 23867 7309 19798 2988 16858 4825 23950 15125

20526 3553 11525 23366 2452 17626 19265 20172 18060 24593 13255 1552

18839 21132 20119 15214 14705 7096 10174 5663 18651 19700 12524 14033

4127 2971 17499 16287 22368 21463 7943 18880 5567 8047 23363 6797

10651 24471 14325 4081 7258 4949 7044 1078 797 22910 20474 4318

21374 13231 22985 5056 3821 23718 14178 9978 19030 23594 8895 25358

6199 22056 7749 13310 3999 23697 16445 22636 5225 22437 24153 9442

7978 12177 2893 20778 3175 8645 11863 24623 10311 25767 17057 3691

20473 11294 9914 22815 2574 8439 3699 5431 24840 21908 16088 18244

8208 5755 19059 8541 24924 6454 11234 10492 16406 10831 11436 9649

16264 11275 24953 2347 12667 19190 7257 7174 24819 2938 2522 11749

3627 5969 13862 1538 23176 6353 2855 17720 2472 7428 573 15036

0 18539 18661

1 10502 3002

2 9368 10761

3 12299 7828

4 15048 13362

5 18444 24640

6 20775 19175

7 18970 10971

8 5329 19982

9 11296 18655

10 15046 20659

11 7300 22140

12 22029 14477

13 11129 742

14 13254 13813

15 19234 13273

16 6079 21122

17 22782 5828

18 19775 4247

19 1660 19413

20 4403 3649

21 13371 25851

22 22770 21784

23 10757 14131

24 16071 21617

25 6393 3725

26 597 19968

27 5743 8084

28 6770 9548

29 4285 17542

30 13568 22599

31 1786 4617

32 23238 11648

33 19627 2030

34 13601 13458

35 13740 17328

36 25012 13944

37 22513 6687

38 4934 12587

39 21197 5133

40 22705 6938

41 7534 24633

42 24400 12797

43 21911 25712

44 12039 1140

45 24306 1021

46 14012 20747

47 11265 15219

48 4670 15531

49 9417 14359

50 2415 6504

51 24964 24690

52 14443 8816

53 6926 1291

54 6209 20806

55 13915 4079

56 24410 13196

57 13505 6117

58 9869 8220

59 1570 6044

60 25780 17387

61 20671 24913

62 24558 20591

63 12402 3702

64 8314 1357

65 20071 14616

66 17014 3688

67 19837 946

68 15195 12136

69 7758 22808

70 3564 2925

71 3434 7769

TABLE 7

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9)

0 6235 2848 3222

1 5800 3492 5348

2 2757 927 90

3 6961 4516 4739

4 1172 3237 6264

5 1927 2425 3683

6 3714 6309 2495

7 3070 6342 7154

8 2428 613 3761

9 2906 264 5927

10 1716 1950 4273

11 4613 6179 3491

12 4865 3286 6005

13 1343 5923 3529

14 4589 4035 2132

15 1579 3920 6737

16 1644 1191 5998

17 1482 2381 4620

18 6791 6014 6596

19 2738 5918 3786

0 5156 6166

1 1504 4356

2 130 1904

3 6027 3187

4 6718 759

5 6240 2870

6 2343 1311

7 1039 5465

8 6617 2513

9 1588 5222

10 6561 535

11 4765 2054

12 5966 6892

13 1969 3869

14 3571 2420

15 4632 981

16 3215 4163

17 973 3117

18 3802 6198

19 3794 3948

0 3196 6126

1 573 1909

2 850 4034

3 5622 1601

4 6005 524

5 5251 5783

6 172 2032

7 1875 2475

8 497 1291

9 2566 3430

10 1249 740

11 2944 1948

12 6528 2899

13 2243 3616

14 867 3733

15 1374 4702

16 4698 2285

17 4760 3917

18 1859 4058

19 6141 3527

0 2148 5066

1 1306 145

2 2319 871

3 3463 1061

4 5554 6647

5 5837 339

6 5821 4932

7 6356 4756

8 3930 418

9 211 3094

10 1007 4928

11 3584 1235

12 6982 2869

13 1612 1013

14 953 4964

15 4555 4410

16 4925 4842

17 5778 600

18 6509 2417

19 1260 4903

0 3369 3031

1 3557 3224

2 3028 583

3 3258 440

4 6226 6655

5 4895 1094

6 1481 6847

7 4433 1932

8 2107 1649

9 2119 2065

10 4003 6388

11 6720 3622

12 3694 4521

13 1164 7050

14 1965 3613

15 4331 66

16 2970 1796

17 4652 3218

18 1762 4777

19 5736 1399

0 970 2572

1 2062 6599

2 4597 4870

3 1228 6913

4 4159 1037

5 2916 2362

6 395 1226

7 6911 4548

8 4618 2241

9 4120 4280

10 5825 474

11 2154 5558

12 3793 5471

13 5707 1595

14 1403 325

15 6601 5183

16 6369 4569

17 4846 896

18 7092 6184

19 6764 7127

0 6358 1951

1 3117 6960

2 2710 7062

3 1133 3604

4 3694 657

5 1355 110

6 3329 6736

7 2505 3407

8 2462 4806

9 4216 214

10 5348 5619

11 6627 6243

12 2644 5073

13 4212 5088

14 3463 3889

15 5306 478

16 4320 6121

17 3961 1125

18 5699 1195

19 6511 792

0 3934 2778

1 3238 6587

2 1111 6596

3 1457 6226

4 1446 3885

5 3907 4043

6 6839 2873

7 1733 5615

8 5202 4269

9 3024 4722

10 5445 6372

11 370 1828

12 4695 1600

13 680 2074

14 1801 6690

15 2669 1377

16 2463 1681

17 5972 5171

18 5728 4284

19 1696 1459

TABLE 8

Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 9/10)

0 5611 2563 2900

1 5220 3143 4813

2 2481 834 81

3 6265 4064 4265

4 1055 2914 5638

5 1734 2182 3315

6 3342 5678 2246

7 2185 552 3385

8 2615 236 5334

9 1546 1755 3846

10 4154 5561 3142

11 4382 2957 5400

12 1209 5329 3179

13 1421 3528 6063

14 1480 1072 5398

15 3843 1777 4369

16 1334 2145 4163

17 2368 5055 260

0 6118 5405

1 2994 4370

2 3405 1669

3 4640 5550

4 1354 3921

5 117 1713

6 5425 2866

7 6047 683

8 5616 2582

9 2108 1179

10 933 4921

11 5953 2261

12 1430 4699

13 5905 480

14 4289 1846

15 5374 6208

16 1775 3476

17 3216 2178

0 4165 884

1 2896 3744

2 874 2801

3 3423 5579

4 3404 3552

5 2876 5515

6 516 1719

7 765 3631

8 5059 1441

9 5629 598

10 5405 473

11 4724 5210

12 155 1832

13 1689 2229

14 449 1164

15 2308 3088

16 1122 669

17 2268 5758

0 5878 2609

1 782 3359

2 1231 4231

3 4225 2052

4 4286 3517

5 5531 3184

6 1935 4560

7 1174 131

8 3115 956

9 3129 1088

10 5238 4440

11 5722 4280

12 3540 375

13 191 2782

14 906 4432

15 3225 1111

16 6296 2583

17 1457 903

0 855 4475

1 4097 3970

2 4433 4361

3 5198 541

4 1146 4426

5 3202 2902

6 2724 525

7 1083 4124

8 2326 6003

9 5605 5990

10 4376 1579

11 4407 984

12 1332 6163

13 5359 3975

14 1907 1854

15 3601 5748

16 6056 3266

17 3322 4085

0 1768 3244

1 2149 144

2 1589 4291

3 5154 1252

4 1855 5939

5 4820 2706

6 1475 3360

7 4266 693

8 4156 2018

9 2103 752

10 3710 3853

11 5123 931

12 6146 3323

13 1939 5002

14 5140 1437

15 1263 293

16 5949 4665

17 4548 6380

0 3171 4690

1 5204 2114

2 6384 5565

3 5722 1757

4 2805 6264

5 1202 2616

6 1018 3244

7 4018 5289

8 2257 3067

9 2483 3073

10 1196 5329

11 649 3918

12 3791 4581

13 5028 3803

14 3119 3506

15 4779 431

16 3888 5510

17 4387 4084

0 5836 1692

1 5126 1078

2 5721 6165

3 3540 2499

4 2225 6348

5 1044 1484

6 6323 4042

7 1313 5603

8 1303 3496

9 3516 3639

10 5161 2293

11 4682 3845

12 3045 643

13 2818 2616

14 3267 649

15 6236 593

16 646 2948

17 4213 1442

0 5779 1596

1 2403 1237

2 2217 1514

3 5609 716

4 5155 3858

5 1517 1312

6 2554 3158

7 5280 2643

8 4990 1353

9 5648 1170

10 1152 4366

11 3561 5368

12 3581 1411

13 5647 4661

14 1542 5401

15 5078 2687

16 316 1755

17 3392 1991

11. A method according to claim 10 , wherein the row indices of 1's in other column indices m (m modulo 360≠0 and m<k ldpc ) of the parity check matrix are given by {x+m mod 360×q} mod(n ldpc −k ldpc ), where q=60 for rate ⅔ LDPC code, q=30 for rate ⅚ LDPC code, q=90 for rate ½ LDPC code, q=45 for rate ¾ LDPC code, q=36 for rate ⅘ LDPC code, q=72 for rate ⅗ LDPC code, q=20 for rate 8/9 LDPC code, q=18 for rate 9/10 LDPC code, wherein x denotes an entry at the j th row of Tables 1–7, where j=int{m/360}, and int{.} denotes the integer function, the row indices of 1's in the column index m=k ldpc +j (j=0,1,2, . . . , n ldpc −k ldpc −1) of the parity check matrix being given by j and j+1, the row index of 1 in the column index n ldpc −1 of the parity check matrix being given by n ldpc −k ldpc −1.

12. An encoder for generating Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, comprising:

memory storing information representing a structured parity check matrix of the LDPC codes, the information being organized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one values within a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix, the rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation; and

means for retrieving the stored information representing the parity check matrix to output an LDPC coded signal,

wherein parity bit accumulators are initialized to zero, the first information bit in the j th group of M information bits is accumulated in the i th parity bit accumulator if the i th entry in (jM) th column of the parity check matrix is 1, where i=0,1,2,3, . . . ,k ldpc jM−1, the remaining (M−1) information bits m=jM+1, jM+2, jM+3, . . . , (j+1)M−1 of the j th group being accumulated in the parity bit accumulators according to {x+m mod M×q} mod(n ldpc −k ldpc ), wherein x denotes the address of the parity bit accumulator corresponding to the first bit, jM, in the group, and q is a code rate dependent constant, after all of the information bits are exhausted, operations, starting with i=1 are performed according to p i =p i ⊕p i−1 , i=1,2, . . . ,n ldpc −k ldpc −1, wherein final content of p 1 , i=,0,1, . . . ,n ldpc −k ldpc −1 is equal to the parity bit p i .

13. An encoder according to claim 12 , wherein the predetermined operation specifies one of a cyclic shift on the first column of each of the group, and addition of a constant to the first column of each of the group, the constant being dependent on code rate of the LDPC code.

14. An encoder according to claim 12 , wherein an i th parity bit is determined by adding the (i−1) th parity bit and the i th information bit if the i th entry in the j th row of the parity check matrix is 1.

15. An encoder according to claim 12 , wherein M=360.

16. An encoder according to claim 12 , wherein the code dependent constant q is 60, 30, 90, 45, 36, 72, 20, and 18 for code rates ⅔, ⅚, ½, ¾, ⅘, ⅗, 8/9, and 9/10, respectively.

17. An encoder according to claim 12 , wherein the LDPC coded signal is modulated according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK (Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.

18. An encoder according to claim 12 , further comprising:

a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder configured to encode an input signal using BCH codes, wherein the output LDPC coded signal corresponding to the input signal represents a code having an outer BCH code and an inner LDPC code.

19. An encoder according to claim 18 , wherein the number of redundant BCH bits is n BCH −k BCH =16*t, wherein t represents error correcting capability of the BCH code.

20. An encoder according to claim 18 , wherein the error correction capability of the BCH code is 12 bits when used in concatenation with rate ½, ¾, ⅘ and ⅗ LDPC codes, is 10 bits when used in concatenation with rate ⅔ and ⅚ LDPC codes, and is 8 bits when used in concatenation with rate 8/9 and 9/10 LDPC codes.

21. A transmitter utilizing Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding, comprising:

memory storing information representing a structured parity check matrix of the LDPC codes, the information being organized in tabular form, wherein each row represents occurrences of one values within a first column of a group of columns of the parity check matrix, the rows correspond to groups of columns of the parity check matrix, wherein subsequent columns within each of the groups are derived according to a predetermined operation; and

an LDPC encoder configured to access the stored information from the memory to output an LDPC coded signal,

wherein parity bit accumulators are initialized to zero, the first information bit in the j th group of M information bits is accumulated in the j th parity bit accumulator if the j th entry in (jM) th column of the parity check matrix is 1, where i=0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ,k ldpc jM−1, the remaining (M−1) information bits m=jM+1, jM+2, jM+3, . . . , (j+1)M−1 of the j th group being accumulated in the panty bit accumulators according to {x+m mod M×q} mod(n ldpc −k ldpc ), wherein x denotes the address of the parity bit accumulator corresponding to the first bit, jM, in the group, and q is a code rate dependent constant, after all of the information bits are exhausted, operations, starting with i=1 are performed according to p i =p i ⊕p i=1 , i−1,2, . . . ,n ldpc −k ldpc −1, wherein final content of p 1 , i=,0,1, . . . ,n ldpc −k ldpc −1 is equal to the parity bit p i .

22. A transmitter according to claim 21 , wherein the predetermined operation specifies one of a cyclic shift on the first column of each of the group, and addition of a constant to the first column of each of the group, the constant being dependent on code rate of the LDPC code.

23. A transmitter according to claim 21 , wherein an i th parity bit is determined by adding the (i−1) th parity bit and the j th information bit if the j th entry in the i th row of the parity check matrix is 1.

24. A transmitter according to claim 21 , wherein M=360.

25. A transmitter according to claim 21 , wherein the code dependent constant q is 60, 30, 90, 45, 36, 72, 20, and 18 for code rates ⅔, ⅚, ½, ¾, ⅘, ⅗, 8/9, and 9/10, respectively.

26. A transmitter according to claim 21 , wherein the LDPC coded signal is modulated according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK (Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.

27. A transmitter according to claim 21 , further comprising:

a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) transmitter configured to encode an input signal using BCH codes, wherein the output LDPC coded signal corresponding to the input signal represents a code having an outer BCH code and en inner LDPC code.

28. A transmitter according to claim 27 , wherein the number of redundant BCH bits is n BCH −k BCH =16*t, wherein t represents error correcting capability of the BCH code.

29. A transmitter according to claim 27 , wherein the error correction capability of the BCH code is 12 bits when used in concatenation with rate ½, ¾, ⅘ and ⅗ LDPC codes, is 10 bits when used in concatenation with rate ⅔ and ⅚ LDPC codes, and is 8 bits when used in concatenation with rate 8/9 and 9/10 LDPC codes.

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